Mark 1:1 – “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.”

The Gospel of Mark is about the actions of Jesus. The words, “The beginning” convey this. The word “beginning,” is translated from the Greek term ARCHE (Strong’s #746 ar-khay´) which means, “a commencement, . . . beginning, . . .”[1] This Greek term is a derivative of another root word ARCHOMAI (Strong’s #756 - ar´-khom-ahee) which means, “to commence . . . begin (-ning).” [2] This is an action word and this is important because the gospel of Mark emphasizes the actions of Jesus. For instance, Mark records 18 miracles of Jesus, but he only records 4 of His parables. You see, the gospel as “beginning,” is ongoing, it does not stop going out and impacting people. The gospel did not end with the close or stop in the first century, but truly it has had an ongoing continuous impact on the world like no other truth in history, and that is true even up to the present. The gospel will go on and on powerfully until the return of Jesus (e.g. Romans 1:16-17; Titus 2:11-15; Revelation 19-20).